We are rapidly approaching a time where every move - every action - can be monitored, archived, and correlated. The right of privacy precious to many is rapidly disappearing as we trade it for safety and convenience. The surveillance society is right around the corner, if it's not already here.

On the school front, many administrators dispense with students' 4th

Amendment rights in the name of 'safety.' They know what the law says,

but community pressures or perceived dangers outweigh Constitutional

rights. Many of these administrators are in schools with no history of

violence or threats. But Columbine freaked everyone out - if it could happen there, it could happen anywhere - so anything goes when it comes to student rights.